Thiaoouba Prophecy The Golden Planet by Michael Desmarquet
 - Abduction to the 9th planet; a true report by the author who was physically abducted to another planet.

This book reminds me of The Only Planet of Choice which I read in 2020 and 2010.

The UFO Report 1990 by Timothy Good

Each chapter is a report by a different author. It covers the topic of crop circles (some seemingly linked to pre-historic sites), the Rendlesham Forest incident, some bizarre incident in the Nullarbor Plain region of Australia, and the Pensacola Beach sightings which I don't think I'd heard about before but have since heard mentioned again already. Really, it makes the present drone stuff (December 2024) sound like old news to my ears, regardless of who is behind these things.

Children of the New Forest

This was a charming tale to read.

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by M. Cox and A. A. Gilbert

I saw this book at a carboot in September 2023 and thought it would be idea to read my way through it in the evenings of the month of October, leading up to Halloween.  I managed half of it that year and enjoyed most of the stories - they're published in chronological order. I then saved the final half for the Halloween month of 2024.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

A novel that I'm not sure how I came to seek it out.

The Third Reich by Michael Burleigh
 - A New History

A hefty book at over 900 pages.

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Contact by Carl Sagan

I landed a copy of the movie on DVD and when I got around to watching it I came to realise that I hadn't already seen the movie (I thought I had at some point). I liked the film so, when I learned it was "based" on a book by Carl Sagan I looked up a copy of that to read.

The two have differences; in fact, some aspects I prefer in the movie - for one, in the book five passengers travel in the craft while the story is presented from the perspective from its main character, leaving the other four characters, and their experiences (which are pretty much glossed over), superfluous.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

I don't know why or how I came to have this downloaded and on my ereader, nor what it was going to be about (I should have perhaps looked it up before starting it). I can certainly see a lot of Blade Runner (1982) and other essences of P. K. Dick's work in this 1984 book, and more latterly The Expanse series, but that's sci-fi for you. It's always a little that sci-fi writers of the 80s and 90s got hung up on what technologies were prevalent at the time and imagined them still existing in their futures, or it's perhaps a shame that we don't still use CRTs and computer like they were back then. Ultimately I didn't really gel with this book; I'm sure I would have enjoyed it a little more if I knew what it was about and wasn't trying to figure that out the whole time.

The Penguin Book of the Renaissance by J. H. Plumb

This book was quite insightful and each chapter (written as essays by others, although it's good  that there appears to be little change in writing style) is its own topic, bringing you the Renaissance from that perspective; Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci are covered.

Masters of Time by John Boslough

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
 - A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

I've read and kind of worked my way through the first part with involves "Morning Pages"; a daily journaling technique where you make yourself write three whole pages each morning.

The Addictive Personality by Criag Nakken
 - Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior

Interesting and insightful, if not lacking research to backup all what the author talks about. Conclusion: "you have to join a 12-step program if you want to recover." (I don't think this is true for everyone).

The Western Esoteric Traditions by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
 - A  historical introduction